Telehealth

Also known as telemedicine, this area of care helps connect doctors and patients remotely, without requiring in-person visits. This virtual care strategy is beneficial for managing chronic conditions, delivering lab test or diagnostic imaging results, post-surgical follow-ups, assessing skin conditions, online counseling and many other healthcare services. It also can improve care, care access and outcomes for patients.

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Telehealth allows patients to become influential consumers—and fight against excess regulation

Telehealth has allowed patients to become more involved in their own care. It has also made them more influential consumers of healthcare. But such disruptions in medicine often face difficult regulatory hurdles.

Would telehealth really decrease spending? Experts discuss

What impact could telehealth have on overall spending? In an "Ideas and Opinions piece" published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, experts examine the growing interest in telehealth and outline the possible implications regarding overall spending.

Performance, privacy and self-efficiency linked to telehealth utilization in older populations

The utilization of telehealth by older patients is linked to perceived privacy and security, performance and effort expectancy, according to a study published April 4 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

AAFP, Zipnosis partner to develop telehealth platform for family physicians

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has announced a partnership with Zipnosis, providers of virtual care technology, to provide AAFP’s 129,000 members and their patients with a comprehensive virtual care platform.

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